AWS for DevOps: Performance Optimization Best Practices

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

Course Description

Overview

Get tips and tricks for optimizing performance as an AWS DevOps engineer. Learn how to measure performance and optimize network traffic, compute (EC2), and storage services.

Syllabus

Introduction

Tips and tricks for AWS DevOps
What you should know
Overview

1. Measuring Performance

Load testing your website
Visualizing metrics in CloudWatch
Challenge: Benchmarking databases
Solution: Benchmarking databases

2. Optimizing Compute Resources

Choosing the right EC2 instance
Use cases for Spot Instances
High performance computing
Challenge: Auto Scaling patterns
Solution: Auto Scaling patterns

3. Network Traffic Optimizations

VPC endpoints
Placement groups
Network packet size
Challenge: Measuring network performance
Solution: Measuring network performance

4. Storage

Choosing the right cloud storage
Indexing DynamoDB
Challenge: File sharing
Solution: File sharing

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Carlos Rivas

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